{"id":716304,"date":"2019-10-04T10:39:39","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T10:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/10\/04\/10-zamfara-indigenes-enslaved-in-burkina-faso-arrive-nigeria\/"},"modified":"2019-10-04T10:39:39","modified_gmt":"2019-10-04T10:39:39","slug":"10-zamfara-indigenes-enslaved-in-burkina-faso-arrive-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/10\/04\/10-zamfara-indigenes-enslaved-in-burkina-faso-arrive-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Zamfara Indigenes Enslaved In Burkina Faso Arrive Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_307063\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-307063\" style=\"width: 223px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-307063\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Slave.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"223\" height=\"226\"  \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-307063\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shackles<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>No fewer than 10 persons from Zamfara state enslaved in Burkina Faso were on Thursday handed over to the state government, after regaining their freedom.<\/p>\n<p>These Zamfara indigenes were part of the 23 people brought back to Nigeria from Burkina Faso by Katsina State Government with the assistance of the Nigerian embassy in that country.<\/p>\n<p>Special Adviser to the Katsina governor on Drugs, Narcotics and Human Trafficking, Alhaji Hamza Brodo, handed over the 10 persons to the Secretary to Zamfara Government, Bala Maru, in Gusau.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201ca total of 23 persons were deceitfully transported by one Usman who sold them to one woman in Benin Republic and from there, the woman too sold them to another buyer in Burkina Faso.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn alarm was raised to the Katsina state government by Nigerian Embassy in Burkina Faso which said all the enslaved persons were from Katsina leading to Governor Masari directing me to go and bring them back.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is on getting there that I discovered that 10 of the victims are from Zamfara state and on the authority of my governor, I brought all of them back.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGovernor Masari gave them some money to start their own businesses with a call on them never to allow themselves to be deceived with better jobs offers by human traffickers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read Also:\u00a0Court Sentences Father And Son To Death By Hanging In Zamfara<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He also handed a letter dated October 2, 2019, signed by Secretary to the Katsina State Government, Dr. Mustapha Inuwa titled \u201cRepatriation and Handing Over of Trafficked Persons\u201d containing the list of the 10 victims who all hail from Bungudu local government area of Zamfara.<\/p>\n<p>While narrating their ordeals, the victims revealed that they were subjected to various hard labour, including digging at mining sites without pay.<\/p>\n<p>The victims said they contacted the Ougadougou Hausa Community leader who reported the matter to Nigerian Embassy there which led to their return.<\/p>\n<p>              &#13;\n                    <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shackles No fewer than 10 persons from Zamfara state enslaved in Burkina Faso were on Thursday handed over to the state government, after regaining their freedom. These Zamfara indigenes were part of the 23 people brought back to Nigeria from Burkina Faso by Katsina State Government with the assistance of the Nigerian embassy in that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":716305,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-716304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>10 Zamfara Indigenes Enslaved In Burkina Faso Arrive Nigeria - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/10\/04\/10-zamfara-indigenes-enslaved-in-burkina-faso-arrive-nigeria\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"10 Zamfara Indigenes Enslaved In Burkina Faso Arrive Nigeria - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Shackles No fewer than 10 persons from Zamfara state enslaved in Burkina Faso were on Thursday handed over to the state government, after regaining their freedom. 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